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Re: [StreetcarsforAustin] RE: UT Thinking about Light Rail To Pickle

On 09:50 PM 10/6/2005 -0500, Nawdry wrote:

The dotted red line, solid red, and orange segment, basically follow the
CMTA railway, now the route of the "urban commuter rail" light railway.


You just had to go and call it a "light railway", didn't you?

http://mdahmus.thebaba.com/blog/archives/000171.html

Mike Dahmus
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Fri Oct 7, 2005 1:16 pm

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Where were they 5 years ago? Here's the article. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/10/05/TopStorie ... 		Jeff Wood
jawaxc Offline Send Email 		Oct 6, 2005
8:58 am

... Below is a full copy of the article preceded by my own comments. Streetcar technology could be feasible for this corridor because actual travel demand is...
Nawdry
nawdry_rt Offline Send Email 		Oct 6, 2005
11:42 am

Well, five years ago, the proposed light rail line was over on Lamar, no where near the Pickle campus. Now, the Pickle campus is between the Braker Station on...
Jeb Boyt
jeboyt Offline Send Email 		Oct 6, 2005
7:58 pm

... Lamar, no ... Braker ... Antonio-Georgetown ... Jeb, That's not accurate. The proposed light rail line for 2000 ran on the same corridor as this 2004...
Mike Dahmus
mdahmus Offline Send Email 		Oct 6, 2005
8:12 pm

... The spur to what used to be called Balcones Research Center (now Pickle campus) is an old industrial branch line which branches from the main CMTA ...
Nawdry
nawdry_rt Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
1:26 am

... Mike Dahmus has basically corrected this; I'll further point out that the 2000 LRT plan routed the LRT line on the CMTA (CapMetro) railway right-of-way...
Nawdry
nawdry_rt Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
2:29 am

... I've found a map which depicts the "Red-Green" alignment of the 2000 plan; see: http://www.lightrailnow.org/images/AUSLRT3.gif The solid red line is the...
Nawdry
nawdry_rt Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
2:50 am

Lyndon, Sam Archer told a few of us at a rails-with-trails meeting a couple of months ago that the intent it to double-track the red line, and that Cap Metro...
David Foster
dkent1953 Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
1:50 pm

... You just had to go and call it a "light railway", didn't you? http://mdahmus.thebaba.com/blog/archives/000171.html Mike Dahmus mdahmus@......
Mike Dahmus
mdahmus Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
1:16 pm

... Mike, They've ordered non-FRA-compliant light DEMUs for this line. It qualifies as a "light railway" by all standards I know of within the transit ...
Nawdry
nawdry_rt Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
9:21 pm

... Pop quiz: 1. What are the headways it will run at during peak times when it opens? 2. How will the passengers get to their final destination? The answers...
Mike Dahmus
mdahmus Offline Send Email 		Oct 7, 2005
9:29 pm

... OK, this would make joint use with an interurban or Rapid Streetcar LRT even more feasible, since it significantly raises line capacity. ... Well, serving...
Nawdry
nawdry_rr Offline Send Email 		Oct 8, 2005
3:10 am
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